Ferran Torres signs for Barcelona

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WNRH said:
His signing was meh.
His performances was meh.
Him being out injured was meh.
Him leaving is meh.
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That’s how I feel. He played most of his games for us behind closed doors, and this season he was in and out of the side even when he was fit, and then he was out injured for ages, so I never bonded with him as a player whatsoever as I only saw him live a few times.

I was completely indifferent about him being here and him leaving.
 
One day people will learn not to jump the gun. Doubt there will be many willing to hold their hands up after cry arsing he didn't put up a farewell message but be nice if just this once, you know, in the spirit of Xmas and all that jazz, that they do.
 
Gabriel said:
Not opposed to making a profit, and agree with your point on Grealish and those who have extolled the virtues of Palmer and McAtee. Just sceptical about the merits of enticing players from Spain when they evidently have difficulty settling.
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I'm happy Torres signed for us. Happy that he scored some fantastic goals. Happy that we made a 34 million profit. Not sure any spanish players struggle to settle in Manchester. D. Silva and De Gea are 2. Hard for any spaniard to turn Barca down. Sad he's gone and hope City have a large sell on clause and/or a cheap buy back. His age and Covid may have played a part in wanting to leave ie no real night life for the guy. I feel for young people nowadays....where is the fun?
 
Keepingthefaithsince1976 said:
I'm happy Torres signed for us. Happy that he scored some fantastic goals. Happy that we made a 34 million profit. Not sure any spanish players struggle to settle in Manchester. D. Silva and De Gea are 2. Hard for any spaniard to turn Barca down. Sad he's gone and hope City have a large sell on clause and/or a cheap buy back. His age and Covid may have played a part in wanting to leave ie no real night life for the guy. I feel for young people nowadays....where is the fun?
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We made 42m profit. We had already paid off a 1/3 of his original transfer fee on the books...
Not bad....
 
Keepingthefaithsince1976 said:
I'm happy Torres signed for us. Happy that he scored some fantastic goals. Happy that we made a 34 million profit. Not sure any spanish players struggle to settle in Manchester. D. Silva and De Gea are 2. Hard for any spaniard to turn Barca down. Sad he's gone and hope City have a large sell on clause and/or a cheap buy back. His age and Covid may have played a part in wanting to leave ie no real night life for the guy. I feel for young people nowadays....where is the fun?
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No problem with what he managed in his brief time with us. If you read my earlier posts, you’d have seen that I’d already mentioned Silva as an exception for us and De Gea was also more established. My concern is more with the much younger Spaniards brought into the academy. Save for Angelino, who appears to have a touch of wanderlust, most have struggled with life in Northern Europe and quickly returned to Spain. I’ve also posted elsewhere that the pandemic has added to the difficulty of living abroad, so it wouldn’t at all surprise me if other young players, and established, leave earlier than we’d hoped in the next year. It’s not just the lack of night life that makes it harder; Torres is incredibly close to his sister and parents, and not having family around 24/7 must have been tough.
 
Gabriel said:
No problem with what he managed in his brief time with us. If you read my earlier posts, you’d have seen that I’d already mentioned Silva as an exception for us and De Gea was also more established. My concern is more with the much younger Spaniards brought into the academy. Save for Angelino, who appears to have a touch of wanderlust, most have struggled with life in Northern Europe and quickly returned to Spain. I’ve also posted elsewhere that the pandemic has added to the difficulty of living abroad, so it wouldn’t at all surprise me if other young players, and established, leave earlier than we’d hoped in the next year. It’s not just the lack of night life that makes it harder; Torres is incredibly close to his sister and parents, and not having family around 24/7 must have been tough.
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Understood. City is a business though and i think any club would take the chance to sign a young player, have him score one in three and sell on for nearly three times what they paid 18 months later. Yes it means they have to replace him but it seems part and parcel of running a club.
 
It still blows my mind really that Barcelona are signing the players that can't break into City's first team. Says a lot about our current squad and training facilities.
 
So the player who Barca are going to build their team around cant even be registered yet lol!! i guess they got a shift some more deadwood to get that wage bill down ?
 
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